What is a "free and fair" election?

[sandinista]

On the CBC here in the frozen north, the reporters, politicians and talking heads keep going on and on about Egypt having "free and fair" elections. What does that even mean? Canaduh doesn't have "free and fair" elections. It's a rigged system to keep one of two parties in power. You need big money to win elections (federally anyway) here, you need to be a member of one of two parties and you have to line up lock step with liberal democratic capitalist ideology. What would free and fair election even look like?

[Warren Dew]

Come on, you should know this one. A "free and fair" election is an election whose results the west agrees with.

[Feck]

Come on, you should know this one. A "free and fair" election is an election whose results the west agrees with.

[sandinista]

That's what I thought, was just looking for some reassurance. When I watch the "news" my brain turns to mush. Thanks.

[.Morticia.]

That's what I thought, was just looking for some reassurance. When I watch the "news" my brain turns to mush. Thanks.

then don't watch

[sandinista]

That's what I thought, was just looking for some reassurance. When I watch the "news" my brain turns to mush. Thanks.

then don't watch

It's morbid amusement.

[Gawd]

Come on, you should know this one. A "free and fair" election is an election whose results the west agrees with.

+1. And by "west", I believe you mean Americans.

[Ian]

Come on, you should know this one. A "free and fair" election is an election whose results the west agrees with.

+1. And by "west", I believe you mean Americans.

Who else matters?

[Santa_Claus]

Put it this way, if I become the next of President of Egypt I probably cheated a bit.